Download or read book An Eagle s Odyssey written by Johannes Kaufmann and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of one German military pilot’s experience before, during, and after World War II flying for the Third Reich. Johannes Kaufmann’s career was an exciting one. He may have been an ordinary Luftwaffe pilot but he served during an extraordinary time with distinction. Serving for a decade through both peacetime and wartime, his memoir sheds light on the immense pressures of the job. In this never-before-seen translation of a rare account of life in the Luftwaffe, Kaufmann takes the reader through his time in service, from his involvement in the annexation of the Rhineland, the attack on Poland, fighting against American heavy bombers in the Defense of the Reich campaign. He also covers his role in the battles of Arnhem and the Ardennes, and the D-Day landings, detailing the intricacies of military tactics, flying fighter planes and the challenges of war. His graphic descriptions of being hopelessly lost in thick cloud above the Alps, and of following a line of telegraph poles half-buried in deep snow while searching for a place to land on the Stalingrad front are proof that the enemy was not the only danger he had to face during his long flying career. Kaufmann saw out the war from the early beginnings of German expansion right through to surrender to the British in 1945. An Eagle’s Odyssey is a compelling and enlightening read, Kaufmann’s account offers a rarely heard perspective on one of the core experiences of the Second World War.
Download or read book On Eagles Wings written by Geoff Gorsuch and published by Navpress Publishing Group. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eve of the Festival written by Olga Levaniouk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded way of exchanging their thoughts. At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue to understand what is being said and to what effect. The dialogue is interpreted as an exchange of performances which have for their occasion the eve of Apollo's festival and which amount to activating, and even enacting, the myth corresponding within the Odyssey to this ritual event. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-02-08T01:55:23Z with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Mage s Odyssey 4 written by Ethan Starborne and published by MoreAudiobooks. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 1415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs of the Eagle written by Matthew H. Lares and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Talons of Eagles written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Solid, page-turning entertainment featuring a larger-than-life hero in MacCallister” from the greatest Western writer of the 21st century (Booklist). Divided they fall . . . Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California. Now, the United States is divided against itself—North against South, brother against brother, father against son. With his own sons fighting on opposing sides, MacCallister leads his Confederate Marauders into battle from Georgia to Tennessee, from Bull Run to Shiloh. When the guns of war finally fall silent, a vengeful enemy vows to add another chapter to the bloodstained pages of history . . . by hunting down the soldier named Jamie Ian MacCallister. Praise for the Eagles series “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Return of Odysseus written by I. M. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.
Download or read book The Iliad of Homer written by Homer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Download or read book My Sea Eagle Odyssey written by R Leonard Hollands and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated story of a wildlife artist's quest to paint the majestic sea eagles of Mull.
Download or read book Castle of the Eagles written by Mark Felton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The astonishing story of twenty-four British prisoners who used tunnels to break out of a highly fortified Italian castle-turned-prison during World War II. In March 1943, at Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills of Italy, an extraordinary assemblage of middle-aged British POWs were finally ready to execute an escape. The castle, which became a special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order, housed some of the most senior officers of the Allied army during World War II and was guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist commando who answered directly to Il Duce, Mussolini himself. The POWs housed there spent six months digging a tunnel, crafting civilian clothes, forging identity papers, gathering rations, and even constructing dummies to place in their beds. Castle of the Eagles tells the story of this unbelievable escape, which today is a little-known marvel of World War II. With an eccentric cast of characters, a riveting story, and exceptional writing, Mark Felton tells a remarkable story that reads like fiction but is nonetheless true to its core."--Jacket.
Download or read book Trawling for Eagles written by Stephen Younger and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyneside in 1986 was punch-drunk in the aftermath of the Miners' Strike, its job market a hazardous place for a youngster embarking on a career. An ad for a 'Ship's Naturalist' in the West of Scotland attracted over 200 applicants, including a gangly 22-year-old landlubber from North Shields.Trawling for Eagles is a memoir from an enchanting time and place. It follows its writer on a boy-to-man adventure through an amazing experience, starting with a bizarre floating interview aboard the converted trawler, Glendale. It goes on to capture the essence of a two-year assault on the senses: sights from mountainous seas to epic sunsets; tastes from daily porridge to warming malt whiskies; smells from rotting dead barnacles to fine smoked salmon; freezing soakings from sea spray to blazing beach barbecues. The young Ship's Naturalist's main supporting cast was provided by the Scottish wildlife: huge, gaping Basking Sharks and tiny sea slugs, leaping dolphins and scratching seals, gaudy Puffins and majestic Golden Eagles. As colourful and varied as the wildlife were the local characters and the guests who came on board each week. Some were confirmed Glendale addicts who returned each year, while others were far from convinced about the wisdom of putting their safety into the hands of the young crew.
Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy, creating the most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.
Download or read book World Climbing written by Monique Forestier and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a breathtaking voyage stopping at 16 exceptional rock climbing destinations. From the wild interior of Madagascar, Simon Carter gives us an eagles view high up on the Tsaranoro Massif. Off the coast of Vietnam, he explores limestone karsts jutting from the glistening emerald-green waters of Ha Long Bay. In North America he seemingly employs wizardry to reveal Devils Tower's geometric multifaceted columns from unseen perspectives. Over on the Greek isle of Kalymnos, he navigates us through the bewildering three dimensional tufa jungles. Carter presents the giddying gyroscopic exposure from the perfect pillars of Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula. The Dolomite's wild alpine rock, Montserrat's crazy cobblestone towers and The Darran's Jurassic wilderness are just some of the other highlights along this spectacular circumnavigation of the globe.
Download or read book Telemachus etc written by George GRAHAM (M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swift Eagle s Odyssey with the Buffalo written by Ken Eichler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift Eagleas Odyssey with the Buffalo is a sensitive story about a young Indian boy and a huge buffalo that saved the boy from a near drowning in a storm-swollen river and from some hungry wolves. The boyas parents sought help from the Great Spirit to save their boy from harm. Was it by chance that the buffalo was at the right place at the right time, or did the Great Spirit intervene to help the boy? While with the buffalo, Swift Eagle takes a sleep-induced magical journey to the domain of the Great Spirit. The buffalo in the story is from a herd of thousands that were near Swift Eagleas Cheyenne village. The boyas love for the buffalo is heartwarming as is his affection for his playmate Little Flower. You will feel you are at Swift Eagleas homecoming celebration.
Download or read book Blood and Soil written by Sepp de Giampietro and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, a memoir of a member of the World War II Brandenburg German special forces unit. The Brandenburgers were Hitler’s Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored, making this memoir all the more extraordinary. First published in German in 1984, de Giampietro's highly-personal and eloquent memoir is a vivid account of his experiences. He delves into the reality of life in the unit from everyday concerns and politics to training and involvement in Brandenburg missions. He details the often foolhardy missions undertaken under the command of Theodor von Hippel, including the June 1941 seizure of the Duna bridges in Dunaburg and the attempted capture of the bridge at Bataisk where half of his unit was killed. Given the very perilous nature of their missions, very few of these specially-trained soldiers survived World War II. Much knowledge of the unit has been lost forever, making this is a unique insight into a slice of German wartime history. Widely regarded as the predecessor of today’s special forces units, this fascinating account brings to life the Brandenburger Division and its part in history in vivid and compelling detail.
